Reviews
Festival Bell
Umpteen albums have come and gone since the original Fairport line-up started playing West Coast pop covers in 1967. As...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Tyro
What an assured and brilliant debut this is. Rua Macmillan was awarded the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Oak Ash Thorn
The legend and music of Peter Bellamy looms large over the new generation of British folk stars. Many of them...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Essential
To celebrate the 70th birthday of England's foremost folk singer, the country's most original and innovative guitarist and a man...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Hungarian World Music: 70s-80s
For anyone interested in Hungarian music, this is a very useful overview of the last 40 years, since the beginning...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Pulling Threads
Having earned her spurs with Irish-American powerhouse outfit Cherish the Ladies, East Cork's Michelle Burke ventures out on her own...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Tir
Tir is one of the words in Welsh for ‘Land’, but, more than its English equivalent, it suggests a connection...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
20 Years: The Best of The Ukrainians 1991-2011
In the early 90s The Ukrainians enjoyed a large following and solid music press support. Largely forgotten since then (at...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
Caravan Palace
France has long led the way when it comes to contemporary artists reinterpreting Gypsy jazz and swing, inevitably inspired by...
Reviewed in issue June/2011
